'A Year in Normandie': David Hockney’s sweeping 70-metre-long artwork unveiled in London exhibition

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'A Year in Normandie': David Hockney’s sweeping 70-metre-long artwork unveiled in London exhibition  An epic 70 metre art work by David Hockney, inspired by the Bayeux tapestry and the changing seasons in Normandy, is the star of a new landmark exhibition in London.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/03/14/a-year-in-normandie-david-hockneys-sweeping-70-metre-long-artwork-unveiled-in-london-exhib  Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.

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00:16It's the outcome of his time in Normandy. He moved there in 2018 and then worked there

00:23very intensely also during the lockdown and a year in Normandy is very much basically a

00:28composite image it's a 70 meter long work here composed of you know a hundred works he did on

00:34the iPad plein air outdoors. He was inspired of course by the Chinese scrolls he saw in the 80s

00:41in the Metropolitan Museum but also very much inspired by Bayeux.

00:50I think foreign artists as they get older of course they've got a lot of memory to

00:55lean back on and all their career that they've been through but he's also living in the present this

00:59is him living in Normandy spending a year there seeing how the seasons change he's still enriched

01:05by nature which I think is really beautiful and wonderful.

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